Man Arrested In Year’s First New York City Homicide

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A 25-year-old Queens man has been charged in what was the first homicide of 2013 in New York City.

Raymond Mayrant, of 41-12 12th St. in Queens, was charged Friday with murder, attempted murder, and criminal possession of a weapon, in the shooting that killed Elzina Brown, 59, and wounded her daughter, on Jan. 3.